What is BLOG?
Many people are very
familiar with Blog, for some another people only know about Blog, but don’t
know how to operate it. Actually, this is my first time for having this blog
hihihihi :D.
Many kind of tools that
can be used to do blogging like WORDPRESS, BLOGGER, TUMBLR or by the paid
provider like NING.
But, what is actually a
blog? This video helps to understand the concept of blog.
Blog for teaching
Blogging is one
way to help students and teachers to communicate in the virtual world. Through
blog they can easily share information, resources in the form of pictures,
videos, audio and different kind of file types. The features available in blog
enable teachers to easily deliver materials and lesson to their students
without worrying about time and distance.
But, how to use a
blog for teaching ? The following websites will give you a step by step
practical information that will help you understand about blogging for
teaching, how to have one, how to use it for teaching etc.:
There is also another
information on Blogging for ELT, which has been increasingly popular as a
language learning tool, published by The British Council here:
And a research paper about blogs
in ELT which shows how blog can be useful media to facilitate collaborative
learning and language skills development
And some other ideas for using
blog in the classroom can be found here:
Microblogging for
teaching
Then what is microblogging? Many of us has probably been familiar with twitter, right? If you are not yet then probably you may need to check this video about twitter. Twitter is an example of Microblogging besides Facebook, Plurk, Path, Google+ etc, one of them may have also been your favorite social networking sites. Microblogging is a site where people post opinion, activities, links, images etc. Since it is a 'micro' blog then the post can usual short, which is not more than 140 characters.
This microblog is
gaining more popularity because of few things such as:
- Accessible from various portable
devices.
- No need for long posts like we do
in BLOG. In Microblog people can just 'shout' in written whatever they
want in publish it.
- It's easy to do the post or
status update
- The subscription feature help
instant communication and knowledge sharing
So, for this modern era, there are so many tools that can be used to support our teaching process. For teachers or future teachers must be able to decide and arrange the material and activities that will be integrated with technology.
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